Improvement in fences



HENRY 11.1mm.

Improvement infences.

Patented Aug. 29, 1871.

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Witnesses.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,461, dated August 29, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY H. LANDIS, of Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain Improved Fence-Chair or Seat, of which the following is a specification:

the chair or postseat; Fig. 2, a plan view; Fig.

3, the same, with a panel of fence and portions of panels.

As I claim no novelty in the fence, P may represent a post or simple rail, to which the other rails R are spliced or bolted, so that the open space 1) in the seat will receive the same. The cast-iron seat, shown by Fig. 1, may be solid or ornamental, with open sides, so as to require less metal, and yet suflioiently strong. The wings B on each side terminate with an annular foot for spiking down. The central open space D for receiving the post and rail has on each side, and reversed or opposite each other, a short flange, O,

and a long flange or support, A, as shown by' Fig. 1. y

The mode of application is shown by Fig. 3,

with a panel of fence in place bolted to the lefthand support A. A similar panel can be set on the base B and bolted to the right-hand support A, shown vacant. Thus a straight or continuous fence can be set up, panel after panel. A panel set in the one chair at right angles on P is also shown in" place leading to the right. The lower portion of such a panel is shown on. P. By setting this on the base D so that the lower rail rests on the top of the short flange O a fence can 'be carried to the left at right angles, and this corner-chair attached by a bolt through the wings on the uprights A, according to the direction chosen.

It will be seen that it is easy to run a straight fence any length or distance, and to apply or make a corner at right angles at any desired point.

These chairs or post-seats are adapted to a permanent or portable fence, and when we consider their durability and strength they will be found equally cheap as the better quality of posts.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The construction of a cast-iron post-seat or chair, D, with its side supports AB (J, in the manner and for the purpose specified and shown.

Witnesses: H. H. LANDIS.

WM. B. WILEY, JACOB STAUFFER. 

